494 ICIIXEUMOXlDiE. 



apically attenuate. Thorax not cylindrical, higher than long^ 

 with the mesosteruum nearly always transverse and the meta- 

 notal carina) distinct ; areola usually transvei'se and angled. 

 First abdominal segment witli the glymmal sulci distinct, and the 

 subquadrate postpetiole obviously broader ; second segment not 

 or hardlv longer than the third, and not transverse ; seventli 

 rarely incised in 5 and the terebra either hardly exserted or a 

 little longer than the basal segment, with dilated valvulae. Legs 

 not stout, with the tarsal claws pectinate. Wings with the 

 stigma not broad ; areolet nearly always irregular, small and 

 petiolate ; radial cell sublanceolate and the second discoidal 

 apically acute ; anal nervui'e emitted from the centre of the 

 brachial cell ; nervellus neither oblique nor geniculate. 

 Range . Palsearctic Eegion, Himalayas, Ceylon. 



Table of Species. 



1 (2) Abdomen entirely black ; basal meta- 



notal area not petiolate ebenina, Grav., p. 494. 



2 (1) Abdomen broadly red; basal meta- 



notal area petiolate. 



3 (4) Costilla} wanting; hind tibire not 



basally black shn/aeiisis, Cam., p. 495. 



4 (3) Costulre entire ; hind tibia? basally 



black varicoxa, Thoms., p. 49G. 



388. Anilasta ebenina, Grav. 



Campoplex eheninus, Gravenhorst, Ichn. Europ. iii, 1829, p. 480' 



(c? 2) ipartim). 

 Limneria melanaria, Holmgren, Sv. Ak. Ilandl. 1854, p, 37. 

 C'am])oplex melnnarms, Holmgren, op. cit. 1858, p. 37; FiJrster, 



Verb. z.-b. Ges. 1868, p. 872 (c? $ ). 

 Am/ada ebenina, Thomson, Opusc. Ent. xi, 1887, p. 1170 (d" §). 



c? $ . A pilose, black species, with the legs, except basally, 

 alone red. Bead with the vertex broad, and but slightly con- 

 stricted behind the internally subemarginate eyes ; clypeus apically 

 rounded and simple ; palpi and mandibles pale, with the teeth 

 subequal. Antemue not very slender. Thorax immaculate, with 

 the areola hexagonal, not louger than broad and emitting distinct 

 costulte a little beyond its centre ; basal area not small ; spiracles 

 circular. Abdomen entirely black, with the postpetiole some^\•hat 

 widened and the apices of the segments nitidulous ; terebra 

 distinctly exserted. Legs clear red, with the anterior coxce and 

 trochanters sometimes paler, and the hind ones black ; hind tibiae 

 externally spinulose and hardly darker apically. Wings hyaHne, 

 with the tegulie white and the areolet petiolate. 



Length 6-7 millim. 



Kashmir, 8000-9000 ft. {Col. Isurse); Assam: Shillong^ 

 6000 ft., iv and vi. 03 (Hotvland Turner). Europe. 



Type in the Breslau Museum. 



